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Conversations with Friends

By: Sally Rooney
Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
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'A nuanced, page-turning portrait.' Zadie Smith
'Brilliant.' Marian Keyes
'A sharp, darkly funny comment on modern relationships.' Sunday Telegraph

The critically-acclaimed debut novel from the globally bestselling author of Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You.

Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. At night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and holidays in Provence, beginning a complex ménage-à-quatre. But when Frances and Nick get unexpectedly closer, Frances is forced to honestly confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time.

©2022 Sally Rooney (P)2022 Faber Audio Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Romance Comedy Witty

Critic Reviews

"This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I'm not alone." (Sarah Jessica Parker)

"Rooney shares with Plath a knack for particularising a feminine consciousness, and this novel is the best I've read on what it means to be young and female right now." (Daily Mail)

"Sally Rooney writes with a rare, thrilling confidence, in a lucid and exacting style uncluttered with the sort of steroidal imagery and strobe flashes of figurative language that so many dutifully literary novelists employ. This isn't to say that the novel lacks beauty. Its richness blooms quietly." (New Yorker)
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i loved the characters. didn’t expect anything, caught me off guard. and it was very cute lmao

cute

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If the aim of the writer was to provide characters that you didn’t like then they succeeded. Nobody has endearing qualities and I didn’t relate to them. The intimate moments lacked detail and seemed rushed which left me dubious about it actually being love. I did however like the last scene.
I have it 3 stars as it did its job for me- helped me get off to sleep.

Hmmmm not sure about this one

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I loved this book. I only read it because i loved normal people and the normal people series. I had this book for a while and started it so i could watch the new series. This book was so great, made me think about the world and reflect on my own perspective on love and cheating. Would highly recommend:)

Great read 💕

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Really forced myself to finish this one... I wanted to love it because I really enjoyed Normal People. I can see what the author was trying to achieve - depicting the inner thoughts of a young woman on her path of self discovery but I found the main character very frustrating, pretentious and pathetic. Not for me! the narrator did a good job though

I wanted to like it but found it painful

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Sally Rooney is a talented writer but I found the central character annoyingly dysfunctional. It’s a shame she couldn’t find some stronger agency over her life decisions given her intellect and ability

Modern or dreary and dysfunctional?

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